Herrington School

Herrington School is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in PONTIAC, Michigan, one of the schools within Pontiac City School District, caters to 319 students in grades K through 6.

Pontiac City School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,773 students; Herrington School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Herrington School shows that Black students make up the majority at 75%; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Herrington School records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

Zooming out to the county, Oakland County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Herrington School is one.

Pontiac Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Herrington School.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Herrington School's enrollment has decreased 42% since 2018, when it stood at 553 (now 319). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 28.4:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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